Triple Crown Bloodstock's Publication, hero of the Grade II
Arlington-Washington Futurity September 29 at the local oval, is scheduled
to have his final serious tune-up at Arlington Park Monday morning in
preparation for the Grade I Bessemer Trust Breeders' Cup Juvenile on
Saturday at Belmont Park.

"That's what we're shooting for," said trainer Terry Knight,
when asked Sunday afternoon if Monday morning would be Publication's final
work for Saturday's 2-year-old fixture that is part of the Breeders' Cup
World Thoroughbred Championships in New York.

"We'll probably go a half-mile or maybe five-eighths," said
Knight when asked the distance of the move. Monday's final tune-up is being
scheduled to take place shortly after the break at about 8:30 a.m.

Knight, a Northern California-based conditioner, flew to
Chicago on the red-eye last week for Publication's most recent work last
Tuesday at Arlington. That day the colt by Petionville worked six furlongs
handily in 1:15 2/5 and galloped out the seven-eighths pulling up in 1:29
under local jockey Frank Lovato Jr.

Prior to his neck tally in the Arlington-Washington
Futurity, Publication's only trip to the post had been a length and a
half-score in a five and a half-furlong dash at Bay Meadows September 2.

Publication, undefeated in only two career starts including
the local Futurity score, would earn a $250,000 bonus for his owner with a
win in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile under the conditions of the Bessemer Trust
2-year-old Challenge. The title sponsor of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile
Division is a unique wealth management and investment advisory firm.

Conditioner Wayne Catalano, the defending trainer champion
at Arlington after winning his first title at Chicago's premier Thoroughbred
oval last season, saddled two winners on Saturday's program at the local
oval to pull within one victory of current leading trainer Jerry
Hollendorfer, the noted perennial Northern California champion.

Catalano saddled Frank C. Calabrese's Beware Avalanche to
win the fourth race on the program, and came right back in the fifth event
with Calabrese's Flatline to finish in a dead-heat with Jeff Sullivan &
Robert Shapiro's Paul's Dream. That rival was subsequently disqualified and
placed second for coming out and interfering with Flatline.

Hollendorfer, who is campaigning a string at Arlington on a
season-long basis for the first time in 2001, has led the local standings
for practically the entire summer and fall. However, Catalano, with 10 wins
from 28 starters since October 1, has launched an increasingly serious
challenge in recent days in defense of his title.

Trainer Jim Eckrosh, the 92-year-old conditioner who may be
the oldest winning trainer in the nation, saddled William Cortesi's Magic
Doe for his second straight score of the season at Arlington Park in
Saturday's seventh race.

Magic Doe, placed just behind the early leaders, gained a
clear advantage in upper stretch and drew off the rest of the way for a
six-length score.

On October 5, Eckrosh sent Magic Doe postward using the same
tactics to tally by a neck. Jockey Randy Meier was aboard for both
victories.